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I liked Java 1.4. Generics were a mess. And Java before generics was so wonderfully simple. Yes, you had to cast, but that wasn’t a big issue. My favourite lan

I liked Java 1.4. Generics were a mess. And Java before generics was so wonderfully simple. Yes, you had to cast, but that wasn’t a big issue. My favourite language would be Java 1.4 with carefully redesigned standard library (because old standard library was not very nice).

pharmakom 5y ago
Isn’t that almost Go? Well, before Go generics land.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Indeed.
  - jatone 5y ago
    thankfully go generics seem far better thought out.
    - pjmlp 5y ago
      By doing even less as they did not learned what having generics post-v1.0 entails?
unscaled 5y ago
Yeah, I miss the good and simple times when Java didn't have all this unnecessary bloat like generics and annotations. We generously peppered our code with casts from Object and explicit boxing and unboxing, and it was good. Our code was so clean and readable, and we neatly wired everything together by configuring class names in XML. We were happy and life was good. </sarcasm> In all seriousness, Java's implementation of generics was less than ideal, but I recently had to deal with a lot of pre-Java 1.5 codebases that haven't seen much upgrade in recent years. It wasn't fun.